Run to your local garden and create this lovely bouquet. It's easy just pick a bloom then a second, then the third and so on and so on until your heart is delighted. … [Read more...]
The Art of Collaboration
We have come full circle in how we do business. Many small business owners have embraced the idea again of working in partnership with other small businesses. Sort of the old fashioned “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”. Recently, I had the pleasure of working with James Bedell, a lighting specialist, desiring to teach his audience … [Read more...]
From a small leak grew a vintage garden
Recently, my husband and I were forced to plunge ahead and replace the liner in our pool. Every year since the leak started we would patch it up and hope for the best. Unfortunately, this year we were forced to take the plunge and replace it entirely. We also accepted the fact that this project was likely to be borne at a significant expense and … [Read more...]
LIFE is meant to be lived
LIFE is meant to be lived and it passes in the blink of an eye. I make every day special in our home. Not so much by filling it with things to do, but more importantly by finding excitement in all the things that need to get done. The house work will never go away so I just embrace the opportunity to make my life shine! … [Read more...]
Creating another day!
A new year beginning means I’m getting another chance. I’m not generally one for making New Years resolutions and I stopped when I felt like a failure over those times I didn’t follow through. More excitingly, I find myself constantly re-creating myself as the year goes on. I do however, like to take the time to reflect and learn from the events of … [Read more...]
Tips for Hosting a Stress-Free Holiday Party
If you are wondering how to host a stress-free holiday party for friends and family, I hope that our experience (and my tips!) will be an inspiration as you plan your next holiday gathering. From inspiration to planning Our son walked in on my husband and I talking and asked, “When are we having a Christmas party, like the ones we used to … [Read more...]
Going Green for the Holidays
The holiday season is upon us and many consider it the season of waste. Well, I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be. It can be the season of green (the environmental kind that is). It’s apparent that now more than ever we are becoming more conscious about what comes into our homes. What I have also noticed is that because more … [Read more...]
Green people attracting greener lives.
Since I began my business a little over a year ago, the slow and steady process of developing it has been one filled with a constant stream of encounters with folks that are just as conscious about the environment as I’ve become. These are people who value all the connections between the choices we make and the impact each one of those choices … [Read more...]
The Spirit of Green in America.
At the High Point Market, BiOH® is sponsoring ProjectUDesign, an opportunity for students of the SavannahCollegeofArtandDesign (SCAD) to create an eco-friendly and stylish upholstered wing chair and have a chance for their chair to be added to the CenturyFurniture line, made with BiOH® polyols and Toray'sUltrasuedeInteriors. These three companies … [Read more...]